Q.--For what purpose, and for how long, did he ask you to keep
these articles?

A.--I am very positive that he said that he would call for them in
a few days. He said that he just wanted them to stay for a few days
and he would call for them.

It also appears in evidence against Mrs. Surratt, if the testimony
is to be relied on, that on the Tuesday previous to the murder of
the President, the eleventh of April, she met John M. Lloyd, a
witness for the prosecution, at Uniontown, when, the following took
place:--

Question by the judge advocate:--Did she say anything to you in
regard to those carbines?

Answer.--When she first broached the subject to me, I did not know
what she had reference to; then she came out plainer, and I am quite
positive she asked me about the "shooting irons." I am quite
positive about that, but not altogether positive. I think she named
"shooting irons" or something to call my attention to those things,
for I had almost forgot about their being there. I told her that
they were hid away far back--that I was afraid that the house
would be searched, and they were shoved far back. She told me to get
them out ready; they would be wanted soon.

Q.--Was her question to you first, whether they were still there,
or what was it?

A.--Really, I cannot recollect the first question she put to me. I
could not do it to save my life.

On the afternoon of the fourteenth of April, at about half-past five
Lloyd again met Mrs. Surratt, at Surrattsville, at which time,
according to his version, she met him by the woodpile near the house
and told him to have those shooting irons ready that night as there
would be some parties calling for them, and that she gave him
something wrapped in a piece of paper, and asked him to get two
bottles of whisky ready also. This mesage to Mr. Lloyd is the
second item of importance against Mrs. Surratt, and in support of
the specification against her. The third and last fact that makes
against her in the minds of the court is the one narrated by Major
H. W. Smith, a witness for the prosecution, who states that while at
the house of Mrs. Surratt, on the night of the seventeenth of April,
assisting in making arrest of its inmates, the prisoner, Payne, came
in. He (Smith) stepped to the door of the parlor and said,
"Mrs. Surratt, will you step here a minute?" As Mrs. Surratt came
forward, he asked her this question, "Do you know this man?" She
replied, quoting the